Mike Newell

Great Expectations is out this week. There have been precisely 736 film adaptations of Great Expectations, so that Dickens guy must be raking it in on the royalties front. I don't mind the prospect of this latest version, and not because it has Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter, who seem to be in bloody everything these days. The reason I welcome the film is because it is directed by Mike Newell.

Mike Newell insists his decision to blow the whistle on irregular payments cost him his job as Luton manager but believes the disciplinary charges announced by the Football Association vindicates his decision to go public.

Luton will unveil their new manager at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon. The Hatters sacked Mike Newell last Thursday following a five-game losing streak which saw the club slump to second from bottom in the Coca-Cola Championship. Brian Stein took over as caretaker manager but could not prevent the team losing to Ipswich before […]

Mike Newell Luton have sacked manager Mike Newell after his contract was terminated “with immediate effect” as the club battle to stave off the threat of relegation from the Coca-Cola Championship. Newell leaves the club second from bottom of the table, two points adrift of safety after a run of five straight defeats. The former […]

Axed: Newell Championship strugglers Luton have sacked manager Mike Newell. The struggling Hatters have terminated the former Blackburn striker’s contract ‘with immediate effect’ as the club look to stave off the threat of relegation from the Coca-Cola Championship. Newell leaves the club second from bottom of the table, two points adrift of safety after a […]

Mike Newell Luton manager Mike Newell has been fined £6,500 by the Football Association in relation to post-match comments about female assistant referee Amy Rayner in November. After being charged with improper conduct – which he denied – and requesting a personal hearing Newell was fined by a disciplinary commission hearing on Tuesday. He was […]

Lord Stevens is set to reveal the findings of his nine-month inquiry into illegal payments in football transfers this afternoon. The former Metropolitan Police commissioner will detail how many of the 39 outstanding transfers he has been able to sign off and how many – if any – he believes warrant disciplinary charges from the […]

Comeback: Davis Luton defender Sol Davis has made his comeback, less than two months after suffering a stroke. The left-back played 67 minutes of the Hatters’ reserve-team game against Northampton on Wednesday. Davis has been recovering since suffering a stroke on the team coach on the way to Luton’s match at Ipswich on October 28. […]

Luton defender Sol Davis is to undergo heart and brain scans after suffering a stroke on the team bus on Saturday. The 27-year-old is in the specialist department of the Addenbrookes hospital in Cambridgeshire after the incident, which happened on the Hatters team coach as it travelled to Ipswich for Sunday’s game. Manager Mike Newell […]